Austria’s government is to seize the house where Adolf
Hitler was born in 1889 to prevent it becoming a site of
The owner, a retired local woman, has refused repeated
offers to buy the house in Braunau am Inn in the past, the
BBC reports.
However, there is disagreement over what to do with the
house next.
The interior minister wants it demolished but others said a
museum or even a supermarket would more effectively
“depoliticise” it.
“The decision is necessary because the Republic would like
to prevent this house from becoming a “cult site” for neo-
Nazis in any way, which it has been repeatedly in the past,
when people gathered there to shout slogans,” Interior
Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said.
“It is my vision to tear down the house,” he added.
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